英语单词后缀及释义

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词语后缀

名词

常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:

1.-ster,-eer,-er(or)意为:从事某种职业或参与某种活动的人(person engaged in an occupation or activity)例词:gamester,gangster,songster,engineer,profiteer,mountaineer,auctioneer,driver,teacher,director,actor,professor

2.-let意为:小或者不重要的东西(small,unimportant things)例词:booklet,leaflet,starlet 3.-ette意为:1)小的东西(small)例词:cigarette 2)假的东西(imitation)例词:leatherette,usherette

4.-ess意为:女性(female)例词:actress,poetess,hostess,paintress

5.-hood意为:时期(status;etc.)例词:boyhood,childhood,manhood

6.-ship意为:才能,状态,资格,品质等(skill,state,condition,status,quality)例词:leadership,friendship,membership,lectureship,sportsmanship

7.-ful意为:量(the amount which noun contains)例词:cupful,handful,mouthful,spoonful 8.-tion,-ion意为:1)状态,行动等(state;action;etc.)例词:action,oppression,possession,education,starva- tion 2)机构等(institution;etc.)例词:organization,foundation

9.-ment意为:状态,行动等(state;action;etc.)例词:movement,enslavement,pavement 10.-al意为:动作(action)例词:arrival,refusal,revival,recital,removal

11.-age意为:程度,数量等(extent;amount;etc.)例词:wastage,coverage,acreage,shrinkage,breakage,hostage

12.-ness;-ity(ty)意为:状态,品质(state;quality;etc.)例词:happiness,usefulness,selfishness,kindness,rapidity,activity,sanity,changeability

13.-ism意为:道义,主义,学说等(doctrine of,practice of)例词:idealism,impressionism,absenteeism,racism

动词

使一个词变为动词的后缀。

常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:

1.-ify意为:转为,变为(to turn into,to make or become)例词:beautify,diversify,simplify 2.-ize;-en意为:使……,变得……(to make or become ;to make into)例词:modernize,popularize,legalize,hospitalize,symbolize,ripen,widen,heighten,threaten

3.-ate意为:增加,使……听写(give or add,make or become)例词:originate,hydrogenate,validate,differentiate

形容词

常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:

1.-ful意为:充满,有(full of;hav- ing;giving;etc.)例词:useful,pitiful,hopeful,careful,helpful,forgetful,thankful,fearful

2.-less意为:没有,无(without;not giving)例词:speechless,childless,harmless,hopeless,meaningless ,homeless

3.-ly意为:有……品质的(having the qualities of)例词:beastly,manly,brotherly,friendly 4.-like意为:像……的(like)例词:childlike,statesmanlike,tiger-like

5.-y;-ish意为:像……一般的(somewhat like)例词:meaty,sandy,silky,hairy,leafy,watery,foolish,girlish,blackish,thinnish

6.-some意为:像……一样的;引起……的;有……品质的(like;causing;having the quality of)例词:troublesome,burdensome,wholesome,tiresome,bothersome

7.-able(ible)意为:能……的;可以……的(able to be ;capable)例词:changeable,reliable,readable,drinkable,comfortable,expansible,convincible

8.-ed意为:有……的(having,etc.)例词:wooded,pointed,moneyed,odd-shaped 9.-al意为:有……属性的,……类型的(nature of,typical of)例词:cultural,personal,regional,musical

10.-ary(ory)意为:属于……的,与……相连的(belonging to;connected with)例词:revolutionary,imaginary,contradictory

11.-ous意为:富含……的;有……品质的;像……的(full of;having the quality of;like)例词:glorious,erroneous,malicious,gracious

12.-ic(ical)意为:……类的;属于……的(typical of;belonging to)例词:historic,historical,methodic,methodical,dramatic,heroic

13.-ive意为:有……属性的;有某种倾向的(having the nature or quality of;given or tending to)例词:attractive,talkative,restrictive,defensive,preventive,constructive,sensitive

副词

常见的此类后缀及其具体含义如下:

1.-ly意为:以……方式(in a...manner;etc.)

例词:happily,boldly,attentive- ly,strangely

2.-ward(s)意为:表示方式或动作的方向(manner and direction of movement)例词:onward (s),backward(s),earthward(s),homeward(s),eastward(s)

3.-wise意为:1)按照……方式(in the manner of)例词:crabwise,clockwise2)就……而言(asfar as...is concerned)例词:weatherwise ,educationwise

4.以ly后缀结尾的副词,比较级都是+more,如more carefully,more useful最高级+most 如most carefully,most useful